Loretta Young Quotes
In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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There is a lot more to me than just being a crazy fighter.
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Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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I don't read the critics.
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Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
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I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them.
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I've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.
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I take every job on its merits.
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It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.
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In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
